To See Too Much

My psychological suspense thriller, TO SEE TOO MUCH, is available now from Amazon in paperback, hardback and digital editions, published by The Book Folks.

A small seaside community begins to turn on itself when calamity strikes

Social worker Carrie Riccioni is recovering from a heart attack, in a holiday home by the sea in Seagrave.

Allowed only light walking on the beach to regain her strength, Carrie is mostly confined to the cottage and, somewhat bored, begins to take an interest in her neighbours.

Watching from the upstairs window, she soon realises the small community of Miller’s Point is far from idyllic. There are tensions and strange goings-on.

But Carrie’s curiosity doesn’t go unnoticed. And not everyone is happy with her eyes on their affairs.

When a young woman goes missing, what prying Carrie has seen will become a matter of life and death.

TO SEE TOO MUCH is set in my fictitious east coast seaside town of Seagrave (as previously seen in DON'T GO BACKSTILL WATERS RUN and WE WERE SEEN) and features Carrie Riccion who, following a heart attack, goes to a holiday flat to recover. While there, she can't help but see some odd goings-on through her window and, when a young woman goes missing, Carrie finds she might also be in danger.

My seven novel published by The Book Folks, I started writing this in March 2024 and, once again, it was plotted out with my good friend David Roberts on our Friday Night Walks. Although it's set in Seagrave, I actually created a new, small community a little further up the coast (beyond the marshes, which appeared in WE WERE SEEN) and I had great fun with it. Of course, the characters do go into the town and a lot of the old landmarks are present and correct, including the Empire Pier and the Winter Gardens.



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Seaside Psychological - a box-set

The great team at The Book Folks have created a box-set of my Seagrave-set stories, entitled SEASIDE PSYCHOLOGICAL - three novels perfect for a holiday read, whether that be at the beach, on a staycation, a city-break or a bench in a pub garden.



DON’T GO BACK is “a captivating thriller about a woman whose past suddenly catches up with her.

When Beth receives news that a once-close friend has died, after years away she reluctantly returns to the seaside town where she grew up for the funeral. Things become increasingly unsettled as she encounters people from her past, visits her teenage haunts and is forced to remember the awful summer when she left for good. Yet it is not just memories that are resurfacing, but simmering resentments.

Someone else hasn’t quite so readily put their past behind them, and unwittingly Beth will become the key to their catharsis.


In STILL WATERS RUN, it is late summer in 1985 and sixteen-year-old Dan and his recently divorced mother visit a Seagrave holiday park for a much-needed vacation.

Shy Dan soon strikes up a friendship with a girl of his age, quirky and pretty Charlie, and his mother is swept off her feet by a suave local property developer. Yet a shadow is cast over their stay when one of the camp attendants, Mia, goes missing. And things go from bad to worse when her body turns up near the town’s derelict lido.

Charlie draws Dan into her efforts to discover the truth about Mia’s death and the pair quickly find themselves in deep water. This could turn out to be a holiday that mother and son will remember for all the wrong reasons, if they survive.


WE WERE SEEN - my latest novel - features Kim, a college lecturer and local councilor in Seagrave, who is involved in protesting against a proposed golf course development that will wreck protected marshland near the beach.

When a fight breaks out at a public meeting, she’s rescued by a handsome guy whom she has a romantic dalliance with. But then she discovers he’s an adult student at her college and if anyone finds out, it could ruin her career. And someone has found out. Someone saw her. Someone took photos.

Torn between coming clean about her mistake and giving in to blackmail, Kim’s life begins to unravel…







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